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Minutes - Regular Meeting Solid Waste Advisory Board March 8, 2007 Approved April 5, 2007 Attendance : Linda Bowerman, Al Vickers, Remus Smith, Jan Sassaman, and BJ Tipton Staff: Gayle Wilson, Blair Pollock, and Wanda McCain, Citizens : Sharon Cook, Jeff Kingman, Tracy Kuhlman, Brian Voyce 1 . Adoption of Minutes from December 7 SWAB meeting Smith moves to accept. Vickers 2nd . Passes unanimously . 2 . Review of Report on Update on Solid Waste Management Planning Process Pollock states that the focus of the group last spring was predominantly on the reduction part of the overall solid waste plan. We did finally get the request for proposals for looking at cost of different materials recovery facilities ready to go out. That will be issued next week . On the heels of that we will be ready to issue request for qualifications on the ability of different firms to design and provide equipment for the MRF . There are two follow-on pieces - what does it look like to have someone haul to a location (merchant MRF) , and what would it look like to have some brokers help with the sale of materials we might generate . We also hope to receive the first substantive work in some time, which is the study of the dropoff sites and convenience centers on the work that relates to whether to continue to use the current configuration or are there better ways to provide those services . The piece that is not in play with respect to waste reduction services is the commercial recycling in a broad scale . That is a fairly major piece of work we hope to get into in the next three months . Some of the other things that are pertinent to the waste reduction piece are should we expand the County' s Regulated Recycling Materials Ordinance that is only for cardboard, wood, and metal, to address the question of are we better off revising that ordinance to include bans on landfilling, other recyclables, or picking it up ourselves through a commercial recycling program ? (Pollock explains SWM Plan for the audience) Organics management is a little further down the road . The other study that is in play right now is waste collection in the unincorporated areas, due March 23 . Solid Waste System Finance right now - eighty percent of the recycling cost is covered by the 3R fee . Pay-As-You-Throw came up in Carrboro . They put quite amount of time and effort into analyzing the utility [of this approach to reducing waste] for them . It has been put to bed for the time being . It would be hard to marry that [PAYT] with their automated system and they are doing very well with their recycling . Another area that needs to be addressed is litter prevention. The specifics of what happens next are not hammered out. We would be happy to hear from you all of how this process looks / works going forward . 1